For a purchase price of $250 million, Evergy announced this week that it will add Scout Clean Energy and Elawan Energy’s 199 MW Persimmon Creek Wind Farm in western Oklahoma to its portfolio, and use it to supply its Missouri West service area.
Consisting of 80 turbines spread over 17,000 acres... Read More »
The City of Chicago struck a deal with Constellation Energy, in collaboration with Swift Current Energy, to purchase renewable energy for all city facilities and operations by 2025.
“I am incredibly proud to advance this commitment to transitioning all city operations to 100 percent renewable ene... Read More »
Nexamp will participate in a pilot program offered by National Grid designed to improve the efficiency of distributed generation, or DG, projects.
National Grid’s “Self-Performance Pilot” program in Massachusetts was created in response to requests from developers looking to perform system mo... Read More »
Methane monitoring, measurement and mitigation technologies are front and center for a new United States Department of Energy (DOE) funding opportunity that’s putting up $32 million for research and development that leads to reduced emissions in the oil and gas sector.
Methane emissions are th... Read More »
At midnight on Sept. 1, Hawaii will celebrate a major milestone for its power generation: retirement of the last coal-fired power plant used by Hawaiian Electric.
That stems from the conclusion of a 30-year power purchase agreement between Hawaiian Electric and AES Corporation, which first yielde... Read More »
U.S. Reps. Andrew Garbarino (D-NY) and Jared Golden (D-ME) recently introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that would provide $4 billion in emergency funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
The Home Heating Emergency Funding Act of 2022 would bolster... Read More »
The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) approved Dominion Energy Virginia’s cost recovery plan for its proposed Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project (CVOW) – a major milestone in the development of the $9.8 billion project.
The 2.6-gigawatt project, to be sited 27 miles off the coast ... Read More »
The U.S. Senate on Sunday passed the historic and comprehensive Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, the most consequential energy legislation in decades and what many supporters say is the most significant federal climate action ever taken in the United States.
The bill -- which includes $369 ... Read More »
A major electric vehicle milestone was set in California last week when the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) decided to allow car owners to measure their own vehicles energy use without relying on expensive utility meters -- a first for the United States.
The process is known as subm... Read More »
Fluence Energy Inc., a leader in energy storage products and services, is opening a new manufacturing facility in Utah to address ongoing supply chain constraints and better serve the North American market.
Fluence Cubes will commence shipping from the facility in September 2022. The cubes, which a... Read More »